History Quote by Herman Bavinck

“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This is the world of polytheism: it knows no overall truth and order, only fragments and limited connections in the shambles of time and…

— Rousas John Rushdoony

“Monotheists have tended to be far more fanatical and missionary than polytheists. A religion that recognises the legitimacy of other faiths implies either that…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Animists thought that humans were just one of many creatures inhabiting the world. Polytheists, on the other hand, increasingly saw the world as a…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

— Walter Kaufmann

“Monotheism is synonymous with genocide”

— Tim Zell Oberon Zell-Ravenheart

The idea of polytheism is grounded in the view that reality (divine or otherwise) is multiple and diverse... Polytheism has allowed a multitude of…

— Margot Adler

Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

— Immanuel Kant

“It is a distinction, instead, between two entirely different kinds of reality, belonging to two entirely disparate conceptual orders. In fact, the very division…

— David Bentley Hart

I think the whole concept of monotheism is a gift from the gods.

— Emo Philips

One would think that people who insist on being monotheistic would be the first in line to walk across the artificial boundaries created by…

— Richard Rohr

“Monotheism and election, taken together, demand eschatology. Creational/covenantal monotheism, taken together with the tension between election and exile, demands resurrection and a new world.”

— N.T. Wright